IN the national debate over fiscal policy, an important question is what the long-run goal should be.
Any solution to the eurozone crisis must meet a short-run objective and a long-run goal.
"Europeans Resolve to Embrace the Euro (as Soon as They Spend Their Old Bills)" (news article, Jan . 2 may be a good long-run goal, but as of today in Paris, it's slow going for businesses.
"Mr Haldane told us that 'a 33 times leveraged banking system sends shivers down my spine, if it were to be a long-run goal for financial stability'," said Tyrie.
And he personally pressed Nancy-Ann DeParle, who directed the legislative effort and has long experience in the health sector, to shelve her plans to leave; she will instead manage construction of the machinery for extending coverage to about 30 million uninsured Americans while also moving toward the law's long-run goal: cost containment.
"Some kind of criminal punishment was appropriate," Mr. Kerr wrote, because Mr. Swartz was "intentionally breaking the law in the short run to achieve a long-run goal of nullifying the protections of a set of democratically-enacted laws that he opposed".
"So we're getting closer to being able to do a sentence, which is a long-run goal, instead of just having, you know, a list of words or concepts that describe a photo," he said.
So the clear and present danger isn't that the G.O.P. will be able to achieve its long-run goals.
With this action, the committee believes that, against the background of its long-run goals of price stability and sustainable economic growth and of the information currently available, the risks are balanced with respect to the prospects for both goals in the foreseeable future.
"In these circumstances, although the stance of monetary policy is currently accommodative, the committee believes that against the backdrop of its long-run goals of price stability and sustainable economic growth and of the information currently available," the statement said, "the risks are balanced with respect to the prospects for both goals".
In these circumstances, the committee believes that, against the background of its long-run goals of price stability and sustainable economic growth and of the information currently available, the risks are balanced with respect to the prospects for both goals for the foreseeable future.
